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Is gender parity in sight for FTSE 100 CEOs?
Despite making faster progress towards CEO gender parity than other global indexes, the pace of change in the FTSE 100 remains disappointingly slow.
Meet the FTSE 100 CEOs: 2024
What does it take to run a FTSE 100 firm – and do the rewards of the job fairly reflect its demands?
What does the average British CEO look like – and do you break the mould?
How many gay, Black or female CEOs are there in England and Wales? Raconteur dug into 2021 census data to find out what groups are most underrepresented at the top of British business
What’s stopping marketers getting the CEO role?
Very few FTSE CEOs have a marketing background, so why are leaders in this key business discipline failing to get the top job?
CEO diversity: why isn’t the face of leadership changing?
CEOs in the FTSE 100 are still overwhelmingly male and white, despite widespread corporate diversity efforts. What is holding business back?
Barclays CEO on the leadership lessons he learned from his cancer diagnosis
C. S. Venkatakrishnan's experience of cancer has taught him some valuable lessons about leadership and how companies should think about succession planning
CEO career paths: is there a formula for success?
Many of the FTSE 100 chief executives are well-educated men who have steadily climbed the corporate ladder. Why is this the norm - and is it likely to change?
CEO pay: how much money is too much?
Leading a FTSE 100 company makes you responsible for decisions that affect the lives of millions. Does that justify the vast sums they are paid?
Is the face of FTSE 100 leadership changing?
It’s the era of ethical business – or so corporations claim. Yet blue-chip CEOs are still overwhelmingly male, pale and disproportionately well paid.
Meet the FTSE 100 CEOs
What does it take to run a FTSE 100 firm – and do the rewards of the job fairly reflect its demands?
The FTSE gender gap: why do so few women lead the nation’s top plcs?
British public firms recently hit a landmark target of having 40% female board members, but why are they still failing to get women into the CEO role?